Yeah, that's the blurb - but the reviewer should have addressed this, I mean if you already read the previous editions and know all about perl regexps then PHP is pretty easy... so do the new bits of the book add anything? (I'm not saying they don't, I'd really like to know)
I remember when classics were such books as Ivanhoe, The Virginian, the Iliad and the like. Never ever a technical manual no matter how well written it may be. Not to say one couldn't be. That is if you threw in a bit of sword/gun play and a love interest or so.
I'm praying Larry Wall isn't ready this, those perl books were goofy enough already.
All the comments I read so far seem to think this is about increasing the dynamic range of the sensors - I didn't get that from the article at all. It seems to be something that goes after a conventional sensor.
It sounds to me the software equivalent of the old (analog) darkroom technique of "dodge and burn" where, when you printed a negative, you manually exposed dark bits of the image more and light bits less but selectively covering bits of it.
Not sure what the motion detection bit is about though, there's no details on that at all.
On the other hand, if you're already a bit of an outsider, living somewhere else has the advantage that people will think you're an outsider because you're foreign, rather than because you're just plain weird;)
You picked the right option. My mother flew from London to New Zealand via LAX - they had an hour or so layover there and instead of being about to walk about and stretch her legs, she spent the whole time waiting in line to be fingerprinted and scanned.
OK, I'm joking, but it would be nice, wouldn't it?
One of the first principles taught to those learning Web design, is to avoid using white text on a black background. Such Web pages usually try to appear cool and edgy, but instead often comes off as immature in the eyes of an Internet veteran, and sinister to the Internet newbie. It doesn't work on Web sites
Immature and sinister are not always bad things! (I feel I have to stand up for my white on black site, even though I'll just get flamed again).
There is an (at the moment unofficial) phpbb2 mod that does a pretty similar thing. What it does is remove the website entry field from the registration form, and only lets people put in an website after making a few posts.
As the bots don't look at the form (they just do a post of what they think the required data is) they will be the only ones submitting a website on registration, so any registration that contains a website can be dumped.
Of course, if this is used widely the bots will be rewitten and the whole thing will start again...
BrowserShield's suggested solution to nefarious forces who try to hijack your computer for personal gain is to comb through a Web page for JavaScript or Visual Basic® script and encapsulate it with associated logic that is executed at run time on the user's computer.
From the abstract of that (I haven't read the whole thing):
The key challenge in filtering
dynamic HTML is that it is undecidable to statically
determine whether an embedded script will exploit
the browser at run-time. We avoid this undecidability
problem by rewriting web pages and any embedded
scripts into safe equivalents, inserting checks so that the
filtering is done at run-time. The rewritten pages contain
logic for recursively applying run-time checks to
dynamically generated or modified web content, based
on known vulnerabilities.
So it looks like what this does is execute scripts that generate HTML and then check the HTML for known vunerabilities.
This seems to be some way to turn script (just Javascript?) into something else - safer javascript? HTML? Can't tell from the article.
If it is, then what features of the scripting is it removing to make the script safer? And if these are not important why not turn them off in the browser?
but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam
Just switch all the lectures around randomly shortly before exam time. Obviously you'd have to arrange the lectures so you couldn't tell the title/course from just from the video, but it seems worth the effort to me.
This is kind of interesting, usually these trojans are targetted at the least technical people (screensavers, games etc) - seems to make sense, there's more of them and they're more likely to fall for it.
But presumably you have to be at least a little technically interested to know what a codec is and think you want one. So are they gaining some advantage by targetting a smaller group who's less likely to fall for it? Are their machines on for longer on faster connections?
I seems to me it depends on whether the in game money can be converted to real money or not. If it can be then doing things in game that would be illegal to do with real money (gambling, ponzi schemes etc) are surely still illegal.
There are two case fans - I couldn't see how loud they are, they say "Case fans as low as 1200rpm", but they look pretty small and small fans are usually pretty whiney.
The model that comes with a CPU seems to use a stock heatsink/fan and there doesn't look like there's a lot of room in there for a quieter solution. Also there are air holes straight above the CPU which are going to let the noise straight out.
I didn't find anywhere where they quoted a sound level for the whole system - maybe I missed it?
I have no idea how this compares to other HTPC form factor solution, but it sure isn't "truely silent".
Yeah, you're right, I haven't checked the numbers recently and misremembered. Also, if you're prepared to shell out some money upfront (not much: $20-$30 or so) and pay an anual fee ($8 or so) you can do a bit better with tunecore - they'll give you 70 cents per song sold on iTunes. Although they are a startup so who knows if they'll still be around in a year.
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Or are the scooters going to make their own way back? Disney should buy the rights, this could be so much better than "Incredible Journey".
Yeah, that's the blurb - but the reviewer should have addressed this, I mean if you already read the previous editions and know all about perl regexps then PHP is pretty easy... so do the new bits of the book add anything? (I'm not saying they don't, I'd really like to know)
I'm praying Larry Wall isn't ready this, those perl books were goofy enough already.
The biggest advantage to developers is that they can write sloppier code and it will still run at an almost bearable speed.
Bring one 8 cares!
All the comments I read so far seem to think this is about increasing the dynamic range of the sensors - I didn't get that from the article at all. It seems to be something that goes after a conventional sensor.
It sounds to me the software equivalent of the old (analog) darkroom technique of "dodge and burn" where, when you printed a negative, you manually exposed dark bits of the image more and light bits less but selectively covering bits of it.
Not sure what the motion detection bit is about though, there's no details on that at all.
Nearly useless articles though.
Well, I think they probably are, but bringing up the budget and number of pages they wrote is kind of missing the point.
Aw come on - it's only 11c more - that's a mere 1c per monkey and ONE MONKEY FREE!
On the other hand, if you're already a bit of an outsider, living somewhere else has the advantage that people will think you're an outsider because you're foreign, rather than because you're just plain weird ;)
But if I did get one, I think I might feel obliged to actually go outside {shudders}.
You picked the right option. My mother flew from London to New Zealand via LAX - they had an hour or so layover there and instead of being about to walk about and stretch her legs, she spent the whole time waiting in line to be fingerprinted and scanned.
The specs are all on-line.
OK, I'm joking, but it would be nice, wouldn't it?
Immature and sinister are not always bad things! (I feel I have to stand up for my white on black site, even though I'll just get flamed again).
There is an (at the moment unofficial) phpbb2 mod that does a pretty similar thing. What it does is remove the website entry field from the registration form, and only lets people put in an website after making a few posts.
As the bots don't look at the form (they just do a post of what they think the required data is) they will be the only ones submitting a website on registration, so any registration that contains a website can be dumped.
Of course, if this is used widely the bots will be rewitten and the whole thing will start again...
I searched a bit. There's a better article here. From that artcle:
Also there is a pdf of a paper they have written
.From the abstract of that (I haven't read the whole thing):
So it looks like what this does is execute scripts that generate HTML and then check the HTML for known vunerabilities.
Why the hell didn't thy put these resources into IE7 instead?
This is coming from Microsoft Research. Trust me, you do don't want these guys 'helping out' on the production code!
(I am ex-corporate research person, so you can trust me)
This seems to be some way to turn script (just Javascript?) into something else - safer javascript? HTML? Can't tell from the article.
If it is, then what features of the scripting is it removing to make the script safer? And if these are not important why not turn them off in the browser?
Maybe I'm being dumb, but I just don't get it.
but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam
Just switch all the lectures around randomly shortly before exam time. Obviously you'd have to arrange the lectures so you couldn't tell the title/course from just from the video, but it seems worth the effort to me.
and I've never heard of this thing.
Guess I should have got out of my cube more.
This is kind of interesting, usually these trojans are targetted at the least technical people (screensavers, games etc) - seems to make sense, there's more of them and they're more likely to fall for it.
But presumably you have to be at least a little technically interested to know what a codec is and think you want one. So are they gaining some advantage by targetting a smaller group who's less likely to fall for it? Are their machines on for longer on faster connections?
I seems to me it depends on whether the in game money can be converted to real money or not. If it can be then doing things in game that would be illegal to do with real money (gambling, ponzi schemes etc) are surely still illegal.
that I think I had caught on Digg once (can I say that here?).
Not only can you say it, it's pretty much obligatory.
You forgot to complain about how late slashdot is these days though.
He died doing what he does best, and what he loves. If only we were so lucky.
Hmmm it depends on what you love doing best... your family may no be so pleased if you die while snorting cocaine of a hooker's thigh (for instance).
The PSU looks quiet, but it's not fanless.
There are two case fans - I couldn't see how loud they are, they say "Case fans as low as 1200rpm", but they look pretty small and small fans are usually pretty whiney.
The model that comes with a CPU seems to use a stock heatsink/fan and there doesn't look like there's a lot of room in there for a quieter solution. Also there are air holes straight above the CPU which are going to let the noise straight out.
I didn't find anywhere where they quoted a sound level for the whole system - maybe I missed it?
I have no idea how this compares to other HTPC form factor solution, but it sure isn't "truely silent".
Yeah, you're right, I haven't checked the numbers recently and misremembered. Also, if you're prepared to shell out some money upfront (not much: $20-$30 or so) and pay an anual fee ($8 or so) you can do a bit better with tunecore - they'll give you 70 cents per song sold on iTunes. Although they are a startup so who knows if they'll still be around in a year.
Can a release candidate be released then? I just seems plain wrong to me.