The way I read the google decision, you can still import files in.doc format. Only you can't save it in the older version of the doc format. I am not sure what the older version is, pre 1997 or pre 2003.
All that we know is the house was left unlocked. We don't know if anyone entered, went to the den and copied all the passwords stuck on post-it notes on the monitor. Yet.
To do any kind deep debugging of the web server, under high load conditions, there will always be flags and switches available to log everything coming from the pipe. Usually these flags create such a torrent of info and fills disks like gang busters, they are used only in serious debugging or load testing scenarios. And the flags are reset, and logs are reduced to sane things very quickly. Further under no circumstances they would send these logs to a publicly available folder.
My personal guess is this: Some naive, inexperienced, newbie IT techie did this. Probably violated to policies of the site admins. The scenario I imagine is something like an emergency in a weekend, and the techie sent the logs to disk he/she to fix some issue. It probably involved the authentication servers. So he/she sent them to a public open location instead of a secure location behind a password because he/she was debugging the authentication issue. The first rule is, you can never debug authentication issues from the WAN side. Must always do it from the LAN side. This was probably violated.
Breach gives the connotation, some one or something broke into something that was protected. Here it looks like IEEE, quite stupidly, left valuable data unguarded.
The password, log in and authentication methods are secure it looks like. The mistake they did was to allow public access to the log files of their web server. Dumb mistake. And among the log is the log for the authentication request. It contained the user names and passwords in plain text, because that is how the log in data gets "posted" to the web site.
It is like having super duper security behind the passcode access panel. But leaving a security camera looking at the people using the panel recorded and making it public.
Not only you would deflate the tire, if you listen to country music, the girlfriend will come back, the ranch will unburn from ashes, and the gas tank of the truck will fill itself and your wallet will get back the cash too. This thing is amazing when run backwards.
Apple is on very solid grounds on this law suite. In fact all tires are really rounded rectangles, just very very well rounded. So Goodyear is going to lose. Also checking the inflation of a bicycle type by pinching it with two finger, that is also out. Covered by the multi touch patent.
Those were huge statues of Buddha. Some 200 or 300 feet tall. Carved into niches of rock face of a hill. Something like Petra. They were in Afghanistan. They were 1500 years old. And the Taliban decided to dynamite them.
Government of Sri Lanka begged the Taliban government to let them carve and carry off the whole statue if they did not want it in their Islamic land. Japan offered to cover the whole statue behind a wall of concrete if they did not want to see it.
The Taliban refused all such overtures, and dynamited those historical figures. Where were all these Muslims who demand the world respect their prophet? Would this new blasphemy law prevent Saudi Government from disfiguring images of Hindu/Buddist/Sikh/Jain Gods or holymen found in books and magazines carried by workers traveling into Saudi Arabia?
The double standards from the fanatics is understandable. But the double standards from those claiming to be moderates is infuriating. I am with Bill Maher in this. All religions are not the same. No other religion demands the right impose its rules on people who do not belong to their religion. All the moderates talk in English to the west explaining why the fanatics are outraged. Yes, the fanatics will be always outraged. It is the job of the moderates to control the damned fanatics. If you can't, stop demanding to be treated like other religions.
Well, the Bamian Buddha is powerful. He got rid of Taliban within a year of His statute being demolished. Buddha will rid Afghanistan of Islam in due course.
This is just anecdotal, but has some good reasoning behind it.
I have been with this company since we were very small, pre IPO days. Those days, we did not have a separate QA dept and we devs pitched in as QA and documentation. Many routine stupid things to do QA kept getting in the way of what we believed as our true job, develop code. So we wrote stuff in the product to ease our own QA.
For example Win98 introduced a "preview" pane on its file explorer. We had our own file explorer, and we had a preview since 1992. Why? Because we had tough time telling which project name corresponds to which project/design we had to test.
We wrote a pseudo "non rendering" window whose only job is to accept and dispatch mouse clicks, in 1993. We had an env switch to dump out mouse clicks during the normal run and then we use this non-graphical-non-rendering window mode to run jobs in a batch. That pseudo event dispatch window eventually grew into our record and playback feature. Then it grew into our macro play back feature. Eventually it grew into our "Command Langugage".
We wrote our own "process manager" to run the jobs in queue, run queues in different machines (only in unix, we used rsh).
We grew big, and we have a separate QA dept. They have bought expensive mouse-click-recording and playback software. They have an expensive bought some queue manager, remote job manager etc etc. But when we were doing our own QA, we felt the pain of the customer and added tons and tons of things to make our jobs simpler, and the customer benefited.
Wait a minute. Was the jury foreman using some pre release version of iPhone6 and did not have google maps? That could explain why he did not follow it.
Some patent troll claims to have invented a process to crowd source finding invalid patents. They want patent office to agree to license this technology from them for a hefty fee. Though prior art exists for using a large number of people searching documents to find examples of prior art and invalid claims, the troll claims innovative new original work in using the "internet" to do the search. As everyone knows, even if people have been doing something for ages, if you stick in the phrase, "using internet" it suddenly becomes new, original and innovative.
Microsoft thinks, "I am selling apples and oranges. I want to sell more apples, so I will jack up the price of oranges to force people to think my apples are cheaper. Profit!!!".
But customers compare Microsoft's apples to Google's apples and apples from other vendors. The subscription based Ms-Office will live and die by its comparison to other subscription based document suites. Mainly google. Microsoft might bring in more backward compatibility with old office documents. ( on paper. In reality I find OpenOffice is better in opening pre 2000 documents than Microsoft itself.) Google has made really big strides in cooperative editing of shared documents from multiple locations.
All Microsoft has done is to have made its old off-line perpetual licensed versions very expensive. It wont persuade any business customers to fork over much money. Individuals? They will never ever pay for document software again. May be some over indulgent parent buying some lap-top for his/her college freshman child might swallow the "buy the best" line of the salesman and throw it in. BTW whats with these indulgent parents buying computers for their kids. I see college kids toting around 8 process 24 GB machines capable of running Ansys HFSS solving asymptotic wave form solutions for radar cross sections of fighter aircraft.
Apparently the fix was to lock the user out after four failed login attempts. But they relied on cookies to count the number of failed log ins. So all you have to do is to clear the cookies and you can make four more attempts. It is worse than stupid. Looks like these clowns have no clue about how the real world works. Their CIO should be fired.
Apparently they used passwords that are super strong and was guaranteed by a French bank, Swype account administrator. So this story is pure fiction. I tell you no one would believe what that password is if someone told them "this is the password for the french bank swype account portal." It was that incredible.
What is missed by all the commentators is this simple startling fact. But for a lucky few get to teach art history creating more art history majors, majority of them will end up in some minimum wage job. After graduating as an Arts history major, how many hours of toiling in minimum wage will it take for them to earn back that 180$?
Well, if you don't have the IT skills needed to print your own certificates, three words: "University of Phoenix".
Well, if that is a little too expensive, try some distance learning program of diploma mills from Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Karnool, Anantapur, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Chirala, Bapatla, Kattangulaththur, West Rajaseekamangalam, Thiruvadanai, East Seevalpatti, Kalayarkoil or Thondi. Typical diplomas go for about 100 Rs each. Three for 250. Wait for Diwali sale to save even more money.
Now Microsoft is getting what it used to dish out to others. But still, I wish Google would just say something like:
Google apps will work on all browsers that support the following web standards. [list]. Google will test its features in the last two versions of the popular browsers for bug fixes, regressions and security issues. Users using older versions or untested browsers can still use the apps, but performance is not guaranteed.
This is what I would call not-evil. Waiting for someone to change the version number and immediately end-of-life support for some browser that is working well is Microsoftian.
... lengths of football fields. Or school buses lined up end to end. Or number of King Georges standing with arms out stretched touching finger tips to finger tips stretching all the way from the center of Earth to center of Sun. That is the kind of units that makes sense. Not this convoluted French thingies that we don't even agree on the right way to spell, meter? metre? what the hell?
They have digitized it for the computer. They might have also fixed the transition and jerkiness. They should digitize the old black and white footage and apply the same techniques to see if the (relative) smoothness is a side effect of the digitization or not.
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The way I read the google decision, you can still import files in .doc format. Only you can't save it in the older version of the doc format. I am not sure what the older version is, pre 1997 or pre 2003.
What'd they do, shift all the load to AMD servers?
Don't be silly. Every one of the towers come with a huge button named in bright letters TURBO. They pushed that button in every machine.
All that we know is the house was left unlocked. We don't know if anyone entered, went to the den and copied all the passwords stuck on post-it notes on the monitor. Yet.
Reading it back, I know what you guys are thinking. So let me issue the disclaimer: I have never worked as an IT techie for ieee.org. :-)
My personal guess is this: Some naive, inexperienced, newbie IT techie did this. Probably violated to policies of the site admins. The scenario I imagine is something like an emergency in a weekend, and the techie sent the logs to disk he/she to fix some issue. It probably involved the authentication servers. So he/she sent them to a public open location instead of a secure location behind a password because he/she was debugging the authentication issue. The first rule is, you can never debug authentication issues from the WAN side. Must always do it from the LAN side. This was probably violated.
Breach gives the connotation, some one or something broke into something that was protected. Here it looks like IEEE, quite stupidly, left valuable data unguarded.
It is like having super duper security behind the passcode access panel. But leaving a security camera looking at the people using the panel recorded and making it public.
Not only you would deflate the tire, if you listen to country music, the girlfriend will come back, the ranch will unburn from ashes, and the gas tank of the truck will fill itself and your wallet will get back the cash too. This thing is amazing when run backwards.
Apple is on very solid grounds on this law suite. In fact all tires are really rounded rectangles, just very very well rounded. So Goodyear is going to lose. Also checking the inflation of a bicycle type by pinching it with two finger, that is also out. Covered by the multi touch patent.
Buddy, it aint all that subtle.
Government of Sri Lanka begged the Taliban government to let them carve and carry off the whole statue if they did not want it in their Islamic land. Japan offered to cover the whole statue behind a wall of concrete if they did not want to see it.
The Taliban refused all such overtures, and dynamited those historical figures. Where were all these Muslims who demand the world respect their prophet? Would this new blasphemy law prevent Saudi Government from disfiguring images of Hindu/Buddist/Sikh/Jain Gods or holymen found in books and magazines carried by workers traveling into Saudi Arabia?
The double standards from the fanatics is understandable. But the double standards from those claiming to be moderates is infuriating. I am with Bill Maher in this. All religions are not the same. No other religion demands the right impose its rules on people who do not belong to their religion. All the moderates talk in English to the west explaining why the fanatics are outraged. Yes, the fanatics will be always outraged. It is the job of the moderates to control the damned fanatics. If you can't, stop demanding to be treated like other religions.
Well, the Bamian Buddha is powerful. He got rid of Taliban within a year of His statute being demolished. Buddha will rid Afghanistan of Islam in due course.
I have been with this company since we were very small, pre IPO days. Those days, we did not have a separate QA dept and we devs pitched in as QA and documentation. Many routine stupid things to do QA kept getting in the way of what we believed as our true job, develop code. So we wrote stuff in the product to ease our own QA.
For example Win98 introduced a "preview" pane on its file explorer. We had our own file explorer, and we had a preview since 1992. Why? Because we had tough time telling which project name corresponds to which project/design we had to test.
We wrote a pseudo "non rendering" window whose only job is to accept and dispatch mouse clicks, in 1993. We had an env switch to dump out mouse clicks during the normal run and then we use this non-graphical-non-rendering window mode to run jobs in a batch. That pseudo event dispatch window eventually grew into our record and playback feature. Then it grew into our macro play back feature. Eventually it grew into our "Command Langugage".
We wrote our own "process manager" to run the jobs in queue, run queues in different machines (only in unix, we used rsh).
We grew big, and we have a separate QA dept. They have bought expensive mouse-click-recording and playback software. They have an expensive bought some queue manager, remote job manager etc etc. But when we were doing our own QA, we felt the pain of the customer and added tons and tons of things to make our jobs simpler, and the customer benefited.
So, yes, eating your own dog food helps.
Wait a minute. Was the jury foreman using some pre release version of iPhone6 and did not have google maps? That could explain why he did not follow it.
Some patent troll claims to have invented a process to crowd source finding invalid patents. They want patent office to agree to license this technology from them for a hefty fee. Though prior art exists for using a large number of people searching documents to find examples of prior art and invalid claims, the troll claims innovative new original work in using the "internet" to do the search. As everyone knows, even if people have been doing something for ages, if you stick in the phrase, "using internet" it suddenly becomes new, original and innovative.
It will just round all the rectangular hour marks, presto, patent complying version.
But customers compare Microsoft's apples to Google's apples and apples from other vendors. The subscription based Ms-Office will live and die by its comparison to other subscription based document suites. Mainly google. Microsoft might bring in more backward compatibility with old office documents. ( on paper. In reality I find OpenOffice is better in opening pre 2000 documents than Microsoft itself.) Google has made really big strides in cooperative editing of shared documents from multiple locations.
All Microsoft has done is to have made its old off-line perpetual licensed versions very expensive. It wont persuade any business customers to fork over much money. Individuals? They will never ever pay for document software again. May be some over indulgent parent buying some lap-top for his/her college freshman child might swallow the "buy the best" line of the salesman and throw it in. BTW whats with these indulgent parents buying computers for their kids. I see college kids toting around 8 process 24 GB machines capable of running Ansys HFSS solving asymptotic wave form solutions for radar cross sections of fighter aircraft.
Homo sapiens first appeared 180,000 years ago but stayed around bodies of water in central Africa for almost 100,000 years. Researchers explained that the location was critical because it had a ready supply of fish and shellfish that provided the necessary fatty acid Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) necessary for brain development Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12261/20120921/180-000-year-old-mutation-allowed-human.htm#8CTvIV68ZBqJuuRV.99
Bertie was attributing the braininess of Jeeves to fish, and I thought he was being a dope as usual. Turns out there is something to that.
Apparently the fix was to lock the user out after four failed login attempts. But they relied on cookies to count the number of failed log ins. So all you have to do is to clear the cookies and you can make four more attempts. It is worse than stupid. Looks like these clowns have no clue about how the real world works. Their CIO should be fired.
Apparently they used passwords that are super strong and was guaranteed by a French bank, Swype account administrator. So this story is pure fiction. I tell you no one would believe what that password is if someone told them "this is the password for the french bank swype account portal." It was that incredible.
Not only they stole all my money, they stole my secret password too. 1 2 3 4 5 6 is mine. Now go away thieves. I am not giving it back to you.
What is missed by all the commentators is this simple startling fact. But for a lucky few get to teach art history creating more art history majors, majority of them will end up in some minimum wage job. After graduating as an Arts history major, how many hours of toiling in minimum wage will it take for them to earn back that 180$?
Well, if you don't have the IT skills needed to print your own certificates, three words: "University of Phoenix".
Well, if that is a little too expensive, try some distance learning program of diploma mills from Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Karnool, Anantapur, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Chirala, Bapatla, Kattangulaththur, West Rajaseekamangalam, Thiruvadanai, East Seevalpatti, Kalayarkoil or Thondi. Typical diplomas go for about 100 Rs each. Three for 250. Wait for Diwali sale to save even more money.
Google apps will work on all browsers that support the following web standards. [list]. Google will test its features in the last two versions of the popular browsers for bug fixes, regressions and security issues. Users using older versions or untested browsers can still use the apps, but performance is not guaranteed.
This is what I would call not-evil. Waiting for someone to change the version number and immediately end-of-life support for some browser that is working well is Microsoftian.
... lengths of football fields. Or school buses lined up end to end. Or number of King Georges standing with arms out stretched touching finger tips to finger tips stretching all the way from the center of Earth to center of Sun. That is the kind of units that makes sense. Not this convoluted French thingies that we don't even agree on the right way to spell, meter? metre? what the hell?
They have digitized it for the computer. They might have also fixed the transition and jerkiness. They should digitize the old black and white footage and apply the same techniques to see if the (relative) smoothness is a side effect of the digitization or not.