...who doesn't give a shit about the iphone or any other products from apple?
Anti-populism is cool and all, but you sort of undermined your own point when you felt it necessary to click into this submission just to make the world know that alewar (784204) doesn't care about the iPhone. Great dude.
This is almost as insightful as the guy who told us how Apple jumped the shark because they sold out of iPhone 3Gs before he could get one.
I don't assume you're a fan, I assume you're an idiot. I simply reported what was happening "on the street" and my experiences are apparently wide-spread. I'm not crying or whining about anything - you are.
Good tactic. Now you're not only a whiny crybaby, evident for all to see. You're also a bit of an asshole.
You (an apparently eager Apple consumer) went on the day the new product is launched (for which people have *camped out*) and unsurprisingly couldn't get one. Big surprise.
There's roll-out quirks in a hugely anticipated new product. Big surprise.
Wahhhhhh, listen to me cry and babble about how bad Apple is because they didn't me one. Wahhhhhhh!
Here comes the Wahhhhhhhmbulance to give you a teddy bear to hug.
Well I'm back from the local AT&T store empty-handed
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How much longer before the masses will finally see through the bad customer experiences with Apple
I don't want to sound like an ass, but it's sort of hard not to: Do you realize how much like a whining crybaby you sound?
You couldn't get an iPhone, so you stomped back to your PC to post some disparaging remarks to make those bastards pay.
The next time you want to Make Them Pay(TM) by exposing them to the masses, you shouldn't start by talking about how you just got thwarted in your attempt to buy your product (because they sold out).
I don't even know if I want an iPhone or not, or whether it's worth the hype, so don't assume I'm a fan.
Hint: For those domains that have valid SPF records set up, what proportion do you think just allow sending from anywhere?
Not many? Even if it was a lot, why does that matter to me?
Open relays aren't as huge of a concern nowadays, having been beaten down pretty hard by the various blacklists. If someone has an open relay, probably sitting on various blacklists, I doubt they're the ones forging ahead with SPF.
SPF won't do anything to stop spam anyway (despite what some of it's proponents say.) It needs to die a quick death
I put SPF on my domain not because I think that it'll solve the world's spam problem, but because it helps reduce the (large) number of bogus returns that come back to my domain (the more recipients that have SPF checking on, and realize that some sender in China isn't a legitimate source for emails from my domain, eats and discards the message rather than bouncing back some wasteful return spam to me).
SPF is great. It isn't a total solution, and there are negatives, but it certainly is better than the anyone is anyone free for all.
Not to nitpick (well, actually I am nitpicking), but persecution is what happens when you go against an entire people
I enjoy a nitpick as much as the next guy (okay, probably more), and I'd happily cede the point...however this nitpick was misdirected.
Persecution most certainly can happen against an individual. In this case the meme on many tech sites was that poor Hans was being persecuted because he was different.
The good news is this is a really strange situation where the fix does not immediate reveal the vulnerability and reverse engineering isn't directly possible
His DNS tester is submitting a DNS check that it knows will be relayed, and then monitoring if the upstream check (it is intentionally doing lookups against a DNS server it controls) consistently uses the same source port. If it does, hypothetically an attacker could send "response" packets in concert with the original request, poisoning the cache.
I would guess that the patch makes the DNS server randomize the nonce when relaying DNS requests.
I know nothing about this, but that's my super-l33t-hacker assumption from looking at it for 10 seconds.
SVG in particular is a sore topic for me. Half a decade ago I had an article in MSDN magazine (I considered the odds slim when I proposed it, and was startled when they ok'd it), yet that gorgeous vector technology still isn't realistically usable on the open web today, which is a bit of a travesty. Adobe's purchase of Macromedia pretty much sealed it as a fringe technology, given that Adobe was the one big proponent of SVG.
This is one of somewhere closing on quadrillion (give or take a gazillion) super-duper high capacity optical formats that have been prematurely hyped and then disappeared.
NBC got incentivized. After Microsoft failed to gain control of Yahoo to use it as a channel to force Silverlight dominance, the NBC agreement was the fallback.
If the "byte array mapped to RAM" installed in Tamarin allows the code to store anywhere in the interpreter's space, that's a huge security hole. It can do anything the user process can do. If you're going to allow that, you may as well just load executable machine code directly, as with Active-X.
You should email them and tell them about this! Surely they haven't though of such a thing!
Sarcasm aside (sorry, I couldn't help myself), I suspect the VM needs to actually hand you a block of memory, and on accesses it validates that it is within the VM allocated range. Anything less would be silly, however such a thing would provide a huge win (I've tried to do image editing in pure managed code, and then found a massive performance win switching it over to P/Invoke native code).
Twitter is overhyped, with a very small percentage of the world (mostly in the valley) yelling into an echo chamber, convincing themselves that the resulting din is a result of the platform's success.
Where once people penned carefully authored essays, they then started writing papers. That was too much effort, so they started making articles. Articles were too much trouble so poorly researched, error-filled, rashly composed blog posts became the new norm.
That was too much hassle so now people just puke everything they think on Twitter.
Twitter is a service, and remarkably few care whether it is "open source" or not (though they do care that it is purportedly terribly unreliable). Oooh, but this one is designed to apply a Creative Commons license to people's finger spews? Come on.
No, I say complacency like it's a real consumer motivator, which it is.
Complacency is the reason that inferior products can succeed if they're cleverly bundled. There is endless inefficiency in the market, where people are overcharged or provided inferior products or services for their money (for instance so long as the audience is complacent, movies will continue inserting more and more ads), because they are complacent about it, not wanting to be bothered thinking about it or making any transition or challenging the status quo.
This is simply a statement of fact, not an indictment of complacent users. Everyone is complacent in some areas of life (I don't like complaining about bad service at restaurants, and always leave a good tip, so in essence I am encouraging and supporting shit service and food quality), and the simple hard fact is that so long as IE is bundled and automatically pushed via Windows update, Firefox has a plexiglass ceiling limiting its market saturation.
Huh...Canada is 1/9th the size of the US now. Wow, where are all these people coming from? For time eternal I've comfortably held onto the idea that we were 1/10th.
I certainly didn't intend any holy war (though I got a chuckle out of the other poster calling me an "OSS blowhard": I'm the guy that has been called a Microsoft shill / astroturfer so many times on here that I started wearing it as a badge. I suppose zealots on either side attempt to strengthen their argument by exaggerating the positions they disagree with)
I don't care if you think I made a poor or even stupid decision, in much the same way as I don't care if a Honda driver thinks I shouldn't be driving a Toyota.
Honda and Toyota? In the browser market, that analogy works better with a Firefox / Opera / Safari battle: All top tier browsers, each having compelling attributes.
Internet Explorer is not a top tier browser. It is akin to buying a unreliable, poor mileage, quickly depreciating car just because that's the brand that Pappy liked back when it was good, and you're too complacent and comfortable to change.
I'm sure some of the people using Internet Explorer jumped on the FF bandwagon.
It has been several years since there was a justifiable, logical reason to stick with Internet Explorer (this isn't flamebait, oh holy Microsoft defenders, but the truth is that Microsoft just stopped caring about the browser market, and innovation dried up. IE 7 was a groaner, and IE 8 thus far is shaping up to be more of the same), so aside from pushing Firefox into people's awareness via gimmicks like this Guinness Record, it isn't like they just need to add that one last feature for it to be compelling.
If people are still using Internet Explorer, it can only be explained as ignorance or complacency.
While I hate to go there, at this point I think we need to see some apps that require Firefox (which isn't so onerous. Unlike demanding Internet Explorer, which intrinsically also demands Windows, usually at a contemporary version, Firefox runs on just about everything, and installing it doesn't change or screw with a properly running system). Offline app support, the canvas element, alongside numerous other web app bits and pieces, it really is the platform that Marc Andreesson was promising a decade+ prematurely.
I don't think the map below the entry charts just the downloads on download day, given that simply adding Canada (at 790,624 actually comprising more per capita than the US) puts it far over their record count.
We have come full circle now with dual core and up chips and the GPU being built into the CPU now, back to the Amiga, which was a superior system design.
How is that back to the Amiga?
The PC platform hit Amiga levels well over a decade and a half ago, with dedicated graphics hardware, dedicated audio hardware, dedicated network hardware, a numerical coprocessor, and so on. People need to stop claiming every new change finally brings things back to the Amiga. That argument is terribly old.
And yeah I was into the Amiga and Atari ST and Mac Classic back in those days, but then I moved on.
Easily fixed. Instead of opening a pizza hut next door before our joint one opens, I open up one after our has been operating for a couple of months. Then I start giving away pizza for free.
Unless there was a signed non-compete or the like, TFB. In this case it sounds like they have sour grapes because Google independently created an obvious, trivial application, perhaps because they were tired of dealing with these guys. That's life and business. The grocery store can't sue me because I decided to grow some tomatoes in the back yard.
The article tosses around the word "accused" a lot, but dosn't really point out if they have any hard evidense to back it up
I was thinking the same thing! And so what if China acts a little strangely, removing batteries from their cell phones and hosing out their old Honda Civic. They're just a bit eccentric is all.
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Which I can do based upon my knowledge of how the catalytic converter in an 86 Ford Escort works.
You just wait.
...demonstrate how you can make a 1GW fusion reactor out of nothing but a sweaty gym sock and the corpse of a field mouse.
No, seriously. 100%. Cross my heart.
Anti-populism is cool and all, but you sort of undermined your own point when you felt it necessary to click into this submission just to make the world know that alewar (784204) doesn't care about the iPhone. Great dude.
This is almost as insightful as the guy who told us how Apple jumped the shark because they sold out of iPhone 3Gs before he could get one.
Good tactic. Now you're not only a whiny crybaby, evident for all to see. You're also a bit of an asshole.
You (an apparently eager Apple consumer) went on the day the new product is launched (for which people have *camped out*) and unsurprisingly couldn't get one. Big surprise.
There's roll-out quirks in a hugely anticipated new product. Big surprise.
Wahhhhhh, listen to me cry and babble about how bad Apple is because they didn't me one. Wahhhhhhh!
Here comes the Wahhhhhhhmbulance to give you a teddy bear to hug.
I don't want to sound like an ass, but it's sort of hard not to: Do you realize how much like a whining crybaby you sound?
You couldn't get an iPhone, so you stomped back to your PC to post some disparaging remarks to make those bastards pay.
The next time you want to Make Them Pay(TM) by exposing them to the masses, you shouldn't start by talking about how you just got thwarted in your attempt to buy your product (because they sold out).
I don't even know if I want an iPhone or not, or whether it's worth the hype, so don't assume I'm a fan.
Not many? Even if it was a lot, why does that matter to me?
Open relays aren't as huge of a concern nowadays, having been beaten down pretty hard by the various blacklists. If someone has an open relay, probably sitting on various blacklists, I doubt they're the ones forging ahead with SPF.
I put SPF on my domain not because I think that it'll solve the world's spam problem, but because it helps reduce the (large) number of bogus returns that come back to my domain (the more recipients that have SPF checking on, and realize that some sender in China isn't a legitimate source for emails from my domain, eats and discards the message rather than bouncing back some wasteful return spam to me).
SPF is great. It isn't a total solution, and there are negatives, but it certainly is better than the anyone is anyone free for all.
I enjoy a nitpick as much as the next guy (okay, probably more), and I'd happily cede the point...however this nitpick was misdirected.
Persecution most certainly can happen against an individual. In this case the meme on many tech sites was that poor Hans was being persecuted because he was different.
From the summary-
His DNS tester is submitting a DNS check that it knows will be relayed, and then monitoring if the upstream check (it is intentionally doing lookups against a DNS server it controls) consistently uses the same source port. If it does, hypothetically an attacker could send "response" packets in concert with the original request, poisoning the cache.
I would guess that the patch makes the DNS server randomize the nonce when relaying DNS requests.
I know nothing about this, but that's my super-l33t-hacker assumption from looking at it for 10 seconds.
Right on the mark.
SVG in particular is a sore topic for me. Half a decade ago I had an article in MSDN magazine (I considered the odds slim when I proposed it, and was startled when they ok'd it), yet that gorgeous vector technology still isn't realistically usable on the open web today, which is a bit of a travesty. Adobe's purchase of Macromedia pretty much sealed it as a fringe technology, given that Adobe was the one big proponent of SVG.
There's always something better coming along. In this case it's pretty much just a research paper, not an actual product, so not all that exciting.
And Blu-ray had burnable 4-layer (100GB) discs two years ago.
This is one of somewhere closing on quadrillion (give or take a gazillion) super-duper high capacity optical formats that have been prematurely hyped and then disappeared.
The guy was persecuted for being a little strange, which is an outrage. Oh, and he also killed his wife.
Microsoft Silverlight Gets a High Profile Win: 2008 Beijing Olympics.
NBC got incentivized. After Microsoft failed to gain control of Yahoo to use it as a channel to force Silverlight dominance, the NBC agreement was the fallback.
You should email them and tell them about this! Surely they haven't though of such a thing!
Sarcasm aside (sorry, I couldn't help myself), I suspect the VM needs to actually hand you a block of memory, and on accesses it validates that it is within the VM allocated range. Anything less would be silly, however such a thing would provide a huge win (I've tried to do image editing in pure managed code, and then found a massive performance win switching it over to P/Invoke native code).
Beautiful, ontopic first post.
Twitter is overhyped, with a very small percentage of the world (mostly in the valley) yelling into an echo chamber, convincing themselves that the resulting din is a result of the platform's success.
Where once people penned carefully authored essays, they then started writing papers. That was too much effort, so they started making articles. Articles were too much trouble so poorly researched, error-filled, rashly composed blog posts became the new norm.
That was too much hassle so now people just puke everything they think on Twitter.
Twitter is a service, and remarkably few care whether it is "open source" or not (though they do care that it is purportedly terribly unreliable). Oooh, but this one is designed to apply a Creative Commons license to people's finger spews? Come on.
No, I say complacency like it's a real consumer motivator, which it is.
Complacency is the reason that inferior products can succeed if they're cleverly bundled. There is endless inefficiency in the market, where people are overcharged or provided inferior products or services for their money (for instance so long as the audience is complacent, movies will continue inserting more and more ads), because they are complacent about it, not wanting to be bothered thinking about it or making any transition or challenging the status quo.
This is simply a statement of fact, not an indictment of complacent users. Everyone is complacent in some areas of life (I don't like complaining about bad service at restaurants, and always leave a good tip, so in essence I am encouraging and supporting shit service and food quality), and the simple hard fact is that so long as IE is bundled and automatically pushed via Windows update, Firefox has a plexiglass ceiling limiting its market saturation.
Huh...Canada is 1/9th the size of the US now. Wow, where are all these people coming from? For time eternal I've comfortably held onto the idea that we were 1/10th.
I certainly didn't intend any holy war (though I got a chuckle out of the other poster calling me an "OSS blowhard": I'm the guy that has been called a Microsoft shill / astroturfer so many times on here that I started wearing it as a badge. I suppose zealots on either side attempt to strengthen their argument by exaggerating the positions they disagree with)
Honda and Toyota? In the browser market, that analogy works better with a Firefox / Opera / Safari battle: All top tier browsers, each having compelling attributes.
Internet Explorer is not a top tier browser. It is akin to buying a unreliable, poor mileage, quickly depreciating car just because that's the brand that Pappy liked back when it was good, and you're too complacent and comfortable to change.
It has been several years since there was a justifiable, logical reason to stick with Internet Explorer (this isn't flamebait, oh holy Microsoft defenders, but the truth is that Microsoft just stopped caring about the browser market, and innovation dried up. IE 7 was a groaner, and IE 8 thus far is shaping up to be more of the same), so aside from pushing Firefox into people's awareness via gimmicks like this Guinness Record, it isn't like they just need to add that one last feature for it to be compelling.
If people are still using Internet Explorer, it can only be explained as ignorance or complacency.
While I hate to go there, at this point I think we need to see some apps that require Firefox (which isn't so onerous. Unlike demanding Internet Explorer, which intrinsically also demands Windows, usually at a contemporary version, Firefox runs on just about everything, and installing it doesn't change or screw with a properly running system). Offline app support, the canvas element, alongside numerous other web app bits and pieces, it really is the platform that Marc Andreesson was promising a decade+ prematurely.
I don't think the map below the entry charts just the downloads on download day, given that simply adding Canada (at 790,624 actually comprising more per capita than the US) puts it far over their record count.
How is that back to the Amiga?
The PC platform hit Amiga levels well over a decade and a half ago, with dedicated graphics hardware, dedicated audio hardware, dedicated network hardware, a numerical coprocessor, and so on. People need to stop claiming every new change finally brings things back to the Amiga. That argument is terribly old.
And yeah I was into the Amiga and Atari ST and Mac Classic back in those days, but then I moved on.
Unless there was a signed non-compete or the like, TFB. In this case it sounds like they have sour grapes because Google independently created an obvious, trivial application, perhaps because they were tired of dealing with these guys. That's life and business. The grocery store can't sue me because I decided to grow some tomatoes in the back yard.
I imagine that it's one guy who spent maybe a couple of hours for this "product", not some corporation with a team of developers.
I was thinking the same thing! And so what if China acts a little strangely, removing batteries from their cell phones and hosing out their old Honda Civic. They're just a bit eccentric is all.
Is being eccentric against the law now?