We try to make smart financial decisions not only for shareholders but customers.
The fact that shareholders are even a consideration is a detriment to customer service. Shareholder and customer priorities are mutually exclusive. There is no way to adequately provide satisfactory results for both. Shareholders don't care about quality of service, availability, etc... In fact, they would prefer the least amount of service for the highest cost to the customer.
Profits need to be rolled back into the company to produce better service rather than lining the pockets of shareholders.
That's the way ReCaptcha works. It's more than an anti-spam device. It also serves as part of a service to help digitize old books and publications.
The captchas are made from 2 parts, a word from a publication that OCR software couldn't figure out and a word that is known. To pass the captcha, you have to answer the known portion correctly.
The system uses your answer to the unknown portion to help determine what that word might be.
Perhaps. I was referring more to the added parallelism for running multiple operating systems. You can get one with a single Quad Core fairly cheap. If you're really adventurous you can configure it with a second processor for a little more cash. The base model T605 starts at $700 though I'd be inclined to go for a little higher end model. A quick look at the 2900 III configured with 2 Quad Core CPUs and 12 GB ram is about $2600.
I don't know what the original poster's price range is but I've spent that much for a home PC. It's certainly much less than I've seen my company spend for virtualization.
You can get a pretty beefy Dell PowerEdge server with a quad core processor for less than $800. Look at the Small Business section under Tower Servers. I was actually thinking about picking one up for this same reason just the other week!
We have know for a long time that Red Hat is a patent troll. They make IBM look like noobs.
Ok, c'mon now...
Redhat (IBM as well) is part of OIN... Press Release here...
How about we wait until they actually do something trollish before throwing around accusations like they were government bailout money...
I don't think "the user should have read the fine print" should be an out for the cellular providers...
Why would streaming video need to be a no-no when the capability is provided by the cellular devices yet the exorbitant cost of data transfer charged by the providers is still ok?
Sure, they use this to try to sell more "unlimited" data plans but how can this make price gouging users that don't buy in, roam, whatever... even legal... It certainly can't cost that much to stream data if they are encouraging unlimited plans...
Many's the time I wish I had a little more mobility or comfort with my computer.
Not sure what that has to do with VR goggles...
Laptops are OK, but anyone interested can see right onto my screen;
Not sure what that has to do with VR goggles... that's a security thing...
and a laptop doesn't quite have that 'cool' factor that VR goggles / headsets do.
umm....
The problem is, whenever I've looked at the options, Linux compatibility is not mentioned.
So true. I myself have been interested in messing around with some 3D graphics with stereo support. OpenGL makes it pretty easy but finding suitable graphics card/driver support for Linux is a pain.
Is there a VR headset out there that is compatible with Ubuntu? If not, what could I do to make it compatible, and how feasible would that be?"
Good question and AFAIK there really isn't nothing. If you find something let us know.
Also, your motivation for wanting this doesn't seem to have anything to do with VR but rather security. If all you want is to prevent people from looking over your shoulder, go out and get one of those security screens for your monitor. They significantly reduce the viewing angle to the point where you can't see anything unless you are sitting directly in front of the screen.
If you're looking simply for security, I think you may not really like the price, inconvenience and eye strain that comes from VR goggles.
Probably not. The article specifically mentions renaming Word documents to have a.wri extension. Sounds like the formats are the same, and it takes no stretch of the imagination to think that a Word documents might house malicious code.
The formats are not the same. The flaw is in the code that converts the Word doc to a format that WordPad can understand. The exploit only requires getting the user to open the file in WordPad.
You don't "have" to give it a.wri extension. Giving it the.wri extension just makes it easier since the windows file associations will cause explorer to choose WordPad instead of relying on the user to do it.
Word files are not binary executables. They are (pre OOXML) binary file formats. I don't know what the exact exploit is (probably some sort of buffer overflow) but the idea is to craft a Word document such that it contains executable code and exploits the flaw in wordpad that causes the executable code to execute.
As a kid I used to try to get a peek in National Geographic. (Do kids still do that these days or has the internet made National Geographic obsolete?)
Anyway, by your definition, National Geographic is now Porn! Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is now Porn! Hell... for some Sports Illustrated is now Porn! Medical Journals are now Porn!
Hell, this is just listing human anatomy... You've also made LOLCATZ Porn! I certainly didn't see that coming!
If you stick to the POSIX api there won't be too much trouble. Not saying that there won't be any but Windows does have somewhat decent POSIX compatibility support. Much of the low level stuff like sockets, file i/o, threads, etc... are there. I don't know anyone that wants to write even somewhat portatble code that tries to invoke system calls without some C runtime library that abstracts the OS away. Where you run into trouble is with the more "Windows-y" stuff like that ingenious construct that is the registry... blech!
Anyway, more than just a language that is available on both platforms, a cross-platform library like WxWidgets (which encapsulates more than just GUI components...) can make it pretty easy to do cross-platform applications in something like C++.
It's a nice iDea, but the messages aRe stIll beiNg sent in the clear, and anyone monitoring your internet traffic would be able to readily identify which sites were visited and in which order. If you're trying to hide something, this is a poor way of doing so. Especially since it's liKely there would be a need for repeated coMmunicatiOn, and theRE's still the prOblem of "key exchange" as it were. In short, it might fool a casual obserVer, but I doubt it would get pAst someone with training -- this is something even an FBI fieLd agenT would lIkely pick up on (NotE the sarcasm). A proper stenographic technique should perform even under close surveillance.
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That's a much better acronym than the originally proposed Protocol for Automated National Identification and Control.
Or the lesser known Protocol for Enhanced Network and Internet Security.
The fact that shareholders are even a consideration is a detriment to customer service. Shareholder and customer priorities are mutually exclusive. There is no way to adequately provide satisfactory results for both. Shareholders don't care about quality of service, availability, etc... In fact, they would prefer the least amount of service for the highest cost to the customer.
Profits need to be rolled back into the company to produce better service rather than lining the pockets of shareholders.
Or walk on fire!
I bought my degree from the same people I buy my V1agr4.
Guess we can add this one to the list.
Damn that's just creepy! I half expect to see it moving around trying to take over the world!
In 10000 years after humans are long dead and gone and it has finally wound down its readout will show simply "42".
That's the way ReCaptcha works. It's more than an anti-spam device. It also serves as part of a service to help digitize old books and publications. The captchas are made from 2 parts, a word from a publication that OCR software couldn't figure out and a word that is known. To pass the captcha, you have to answer the known portion correctly. The system uses your answer to the unknown portion to help determine what that word might be.
"Woosh" is so much funnier the way you say it! I would have modded you up but it seems my mod points have gone the way of the dinosaurs...
Perhaps. I was referring more to the added parallelism for running multiple operating systems. You can get one with a single Quad Core fairly cheap. If you're really adventurous you can configure it with a second processor for a little more cash. The base model T605 starts at $700 though I'd be inclined to go for a little higher end model. A quick look at the 2900 III configured with 2 Quad Core CPUs and 12 GB ram is about $2600. I don't know what the original poster's price range is but I've spent that much for a home PC. It's certainly much less than I've seen my company spend for virtualization.
You can get a pretty beefy Dell PowerEdge server with a quad core processor for less than $800. Look at the Small Business section under Tower Servers. I was actually thinking about picking one up for this same reason just the other week!
We have know for a long time that Red Hat is a patent troll. They make IBM look like noobs.
Ok, c'mon now... Redhat (IBM as well) is part of OIN... Press Release here... How about we wait until they actually do something trollish before throwing around accusations like they were government bailout money...
I don't think "the user should have read the fine print" should be an out for the cellular providers... Why would streaming video need to be a no-no when the capability is provided by the cellular devices yet the exorbitant cost of data transfer charged by the providers is still ok? Sure, they use this to try to sell more "unlimited" data plans but how can this make price gouging users that don't buy in, roam, whatever... even legal... It certainly can't cost that much to stream data if they are encouraging unlimited plans...
Would that be a melamine laced food chain?
The real question is how did they prove he was the person at the keyboard at the time the IP address was used?
ZING!!
Not sure what that has to do with VR goggles...
Not sure what that has to do with VR goggles... that's a security thing...
umm....
So true. I myself have been interested in messing around with some 3D graphics with stereo support. OpenGL makes it pretty easy but finding suitable graphics card/driver support for Linux is a pain.
Good question and AFAIK there really isn't nothing. If you find something let us know.
Also, your motivation for wanting this doesn't seem to have anything to do with VR but rather security. If all you want is to prevent people from looking over your shoulder, go out and get one of those security screens for your monitor. They significantly reduce the viewing angle to the point where you can't see anything unless you are sitting directly in front of the screen.
If you're looking simply for security, I think you may not really like the price, inconvenience and eye strain that comes from VR goggles.
Are .rtf files now unsafe on Windows?
Probably not. The article specifically mentions renaming Word documents to have a .wri extension. Sounds like the formats are the same, and it takes no stretch of the imagination to think that a Word documents might house malicious code.
The formats are not the same. The flaw is in the code that converts the Word doc to a format that WordPad can understand. The exploit only requires getting the user to open the file in WordPad.
You don't "have" to give it a .wri extension. Giving it the .wri extension just makes it easier since the windows file associations will cause explorer to choose WordPad instead of relying on the user to do it.
... while, at the SAME TIME, running a non-updated version of Windows, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003.
Does it have to be with the same hand?
j/k
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
I was gonna mod this as Funny cause I almost spit out my Pepsi when I read this. Then I saw someone modded it Informative...
Then I did spit out my Pepsi.
Word files are not binary executables. They are (pre OOXML) binary file formats. I don't know what the exact exploit is (probably some sort of buffer overflow) but the idea is to craft a Word document such that it contains executable code and exploits the flaw in wordpad that causes the executable code to execute.
Send a specially crafted word document (i.e. code embedded) and trick the user into opening it with WordPad (i.e. using the .wri file extension).
As a kid I used to try to get a peek in National Geographic. (Do kids still do that these days or has the internet made National Geographic obsolete?)
Anyway, by your definition, National Geographic is now Porn! Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is now Porn! Hell... for some Sports Illustrated is now Porn! Medical Journals are now Porn!
Hell, this is just listing human anatomy... You've also made LOLCATZ Porn! I certainly didn't see that coming!
If you stick to the POSIX api there won't be too much trouble. Not saying that there won't be any but Windows does have somewhat decent POSIX compatibility support. Much of the low level stuff like sockets, file i/o, threads, etc... are there. I don't know anyone that wants to write even somewhat portatble code that tries to invoke system calls without some C runtime library that abstracts the OS away. Where you run into trouble is with the more "Windows-y" stuff like that ingenious construct that is the registry... blech!
Anyway, more than just a language that is available on both platforms, a cross-platform library like WxWidgets (which encapsulates more than just GUI components...) can make it pretty easy to do cross-platform applications in something like C++.
I see what you did there!