As long as Chrome ships with Flash, and all other browsers have a Flash plug-in available, there's absolutely zero reason for any video streaming service to switch away from Flash. That includes YouTube, which uses Flash to layer ads over sponsored videos.
So the net change from this move is going to be... nothing happens. Then a decade from now, we collectively look back and think, "what were we thinking?" and dismantle all the code like we did when VRML.
Actually you where the last Western Northern Hemisphere country to do that.... if you're really picky about the definition of "western". Brazil for example didn't abolish slavery until 1888. I can't imagine any criteria that makes Brazil not "western".
According to the blurb, Twitter's already notified them. So if you don't have a notification, you're not a "supporter". (In the eyes of the Government.)
It may be a GPL violation, but who cares? Those tools already ship free in every OS on the planet. Nobody's going to make any money off this. And the fact that nobody from the community contributed code in 10 years kind of tells us what level of interest there is.
Yes, but when a packet is dropped, my character in the video game lurches and I get headshotted by the sniper before I can headshot him. Therefore, I'd prefer to have zero packet loss.
You need to include actual consumers in this process, you know-- downloading large files isn't the *only* use of a network.
State education departments don't use the scientific method to figure out which bad teachers to fire, they don't use it to figure out which education methodology works best, they don't use it to figure out optimal class size or technology investment...
It seems self-evident to me that they wouldn't effectively teach a tool they've never used.
So let's see how good its predictions were... arcologies? Nope. Workers forced to live underground? Nope. Robot that can pass for human? Nope. Machines requiring more manual intervention to run? Nope. Metric (10 hour) clocks? Nope.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a great film. But it got far more wrong than it got right.
Well, to be fair, you *do* get your news from Slashdot. Obviously they're going to post data loss that happens to Microsoft, and maybe a 50/50 chance of posting data loss from other companies.
You also have to take into account scale... if Microsoft has the most data stored in the cloud, then statistically they'd also have the most data loss-- even if their data protection is just as good as other cloud vendors! Microsoft having more data loss incidents doesn't necessarily make them worse than any other cloud vendor.
Sure, it was a free service with no guarantees. Perhaps I should have been making backups of my precious emails.
"Perhaps?" So you've learned absolutely nothing from this? Great.
Thing is, this was not something they did by mistake. This was a policy that they willfully implemented. They chose to punish their subscribers. I don't get it.
Or maybe they chose to clean out the disk space used by users who never used it, and give it to users who actually did use it. Of course when you put it that way, it doesn't sound so eviiiil.
Microsoft sucks.
Yeah, and that's the message you get out of this? You suck.
Now everything is going "cloud", I can see a gap in the market for "family cloud" appliances - plonk them on your home network, trust a few similar units on the networks of family members, and get the benefits of redundant backups, mail service, etc, exchanging the cost of your privacy for a few hundred dollars.
You mean like Windows Home Server? I think Microsoft's a little ahead of you on that one.
But trying to get people to do this in the States is like pulling teeth.
Phew! For a second there I thought we'd get through a Slashdot story without pointless US-bashing.
Anyway, tons of large chains in the have single lines. Fry's, and Barnes and Noble spring instantly to mind... I'm sure I could come up with a half-dozen more if I thought about it longer.
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Ah, I agree.
The cynical person in me would say that the dominance of IE is at least half of the blame on Mozilla's disastrous decision to re-write Netscape from scratch, resulting in them having literally no way of competing with Microsoft. (It's also telling that IE won against Netscape on the Macintosh, a platform which wasn't subject to the biases you mentioned.)
I mean, if you want Microsoft to write good software, you need to compete with them-- that's just how it works. No competition to Microsoft = no effort from Microsoft.
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Microsoft got themselves into this biased market mess by aggressively pushing IE and locking out other browsers,
Wha? Since when did Microsoft "lock out" other browsers?
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Yeah, well, posting 5 sentences of "MICROSOFT R TEH SUX LOLOLOLOL WHO WANTED 0-DAY FOR XMAS LOLOLOLOL" doesn't really convey that impression to me.
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No kidding.
Hey "Reboot Kid": Grow the fuck up! We already have enough snide 12-year-olds in computer security. If it's serious business, then be serious. If not, then don't post at all.
Those passwords were decrypted in 24 hours. I expect the majority of the remaining passwords would fall with a longer attack. It's not hard to envisage that someone slurps up every single hash into memory and begins a brute force attack from 4 chars all the way up until they get bored, striking off every password as they match it to the list. They could even use GPUs to speed things up and run hashes in parallel.
The point you're missing is that they're *only* being used for making comments on dumb blogs. Tons of people pick easy-to-remember passwords for making comments on stupid blogs, because who fucking cares if it gets stolen? This analysis is flawed because the system the passwords were for is completely unimportant.
Now if a *bank's* passwords were leaked, and they found the same lack of security, then that would be cause for alarm.
It's a staged release, just in case there's a horrible flaw in it somewhere. (Maybe you've been asleep the last year, but there have been a couple incidents with AV software killing people's computers; you can imagine why they would want to be careful.)
You can either wait a few weeks, or install it manually. The definitions are the same either way.
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Oh! Well that excuses crappy drivers! Carry on, then.
I'm so glad the first reply to this article doesn't completely and utterly miss the point.
Or the stable release of IE9. He *is* testing a beta, remember. Beta? Beta? Remember what Beta means? (Not even the most current beta, to-boot.)
As long as Chrome ships with Flash, and all other browsers have a Flash plug-in available, there's absolutely zero reason for any video streaming service to switch away from Flash. That includes YouTube, which uses Flash to layer ads over sponsored videos.
So the net change from this move is going to be... nothing happens. Then a decade from now, we collectively look back and think, "what were we thinking?" and dismantle all the code like we did when VRML.
Actually you where the last Western Northern Hemisphere country to do that. ... if you're really picky about the definition of "western". Brazil for example didn't abolish slavery until 1888. I can't imagine any criteria that makes Brazil not "western".
According to the blurb, Twitter's already notified them. So if you don't have a notification, you're not a "supporter". (In the eyes of the Government.)
It may be a GPL violation, but who cares? Those tools already ship free in every OS on the planet. Nobody's going to make any money off this. And the fact that nobody from the community contributed code in 10 years kind of tells us what level of interest there is.
Yes, but when a packet is dropped, my character in the video game lurches and I get headshotted by the sniper before I can headshot him. Therefore, I'd prefer to have zero packet loss.
You need to include actual consumers in this process, you know-- downloading large files isn't the *only* use of a network.
State education departments don't use the scientific method to figure out which bad teachers to fire, they don't use it to figure out which education methodology works best, they don't use it to figure out optimal class size or technology investment...
It seems self-evident to me that they wouldn't effectively teach a tool they've never used.
3. Hyperdrive - great bbc space comedy
Out of the two seasons I watched, it had maybe 3 episodes that weren't completely unfunny. Competent maybe, but "great"?
4. Space Above and Beyond - great military space series
Seriously? It sucked ass.
No movie has ever succeeded at (or even attempted) to portray space travel, and astronauts, more realistically than 2001.
Uh... what? Never heard of Apollo 13?
Maybe you meant "no science fiction movie"? Or you haven't seen very many movies...
Metropolis? Really?
So let's see how good its predictions were... arcologies? Nope. Workers forced to live underground? Nope. Robot that can pass for human? Nope. Machines requiring more manual intervention to run? Nope. Metric (10 hour) clocks? Nope.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a great film. But it got far more wrong than it got right.
Well, to be fair, you *do* get your news from Slashdot. Obviously they're going to post data loss that happens to Microsoft, and maybe a 50/50 chance of posting data loss from other companies.
You also have to take into account scale... if Microsoft has the most data stored in the cloud, then statistically they'd also have the most data loss-- even if their data protection is just as good as other cloud vendors! Microsoft having more data loss incidents doesn't necessarily make them worse than any other cloud vendor.
In short, think critically about the news.
Sure, it was a free service with no guarantees. Perhaps I should have been making backups of my precious emails.
"Perhaps?" So you've learned absolutely nothing from this? Great.
Thing is, this was not something they did by mistake. This was a policy that they willfully implemented. They chose to punish their subscribers. I don't get it.
Or maybe they chose to clean out the disk space used by users who never used it, and give it to users who actually did use it. Of course when you put it that way, it doesn't sound so eviiiil.
Microsoft sucks.
Yeah, and that's the message you get out of this? You suck.
Now everything is going "cloud", I can see a gap in the market for "family cloud" appliances - plonk them on your home network, trust a few similar units on the networks of family members, and get the benefits of redundant backups, mail service, etc, exchanging the cost of your privacy for a few hundred dollars.
You mean like Windows Home Server? I think Microsoft's a little ahead of you on that one.
But trying to get people to do this in the States is like pulling teeth.
Phew! For a second there I thought we'd get through a Slashdot story without pointless US-bashing.
Anyway, tons of large chains in the have single lines. Fry's, and Barnes and Noble spring instantly to mind... I'm sure I could come up with a half-dozen more if I thought about it longer.
Ah, I agree.
The cynical person in me would say that the dominance of IE is at least half of the blame on Mozilla's disastrous decision to re-write Netscape from scratch, resulting in them having literally no way of competing with Microsoft. (It's also telling that IE won against Netscape on the Macintosh, a platform which wasn't subject to the biases you mentioned.)
I mean, if you want Microsoft to write good software, you need to compete with them-- that's just how it works. No competition to Microsoft = no effort from Microsoft.
Microsoft got themselves into this biased market mess by aggressively pushing IE and locking out other browsers,
Wha? Since when did Microsoft "lock out" other browsers?
Yeah, well, posting 5 sentences of "MICROSOFT R TEH SUX LOLOLOLOL WHO WANTED 0-DAY FOR XMAS LOLOLOLOL" doesn't really convey that impression to me.
No kidding.
Hey "Reboot Kid": Grow the fuck up! We already have enough snide 12-year-olds in computer security. If it's serious business, then be serious. If not, then don't post at all.
The point you're missing is that you might use throwaway passwords on forums or blogs, I might use throwaways on formums blogs but some people don't.
Until you can enumerate how many "some" is, I still don't see the Gawker data as particularly compelling.
Those passwords were decrypted in 24 hours. I expect the majority of the remaining passwords would fall with a longer attack. It's not hard to envisage that someone slurps up every single hash into memory and begins a brute force attack from 4 chars all the way up until they get bored, striking off every password as they match it to the list. They could even use GPUs to speed things up and run hashes in parallel.
The point you're missing is that they're *only* being used for making comments on dumb blogs. Tons of people pick easy-to-remember passwords for making comments on stupid blogs, because who fucking cares if it gets stolen? This analysis is flawed because the system the passwords were for is completely unimportant.
Now if a *bank's* passwords were leaked, and they found the same lack of security, then that would be cause for alarm.
Yet some of them are capable of playing big studio games
You mean "big studio game." (Civ V.)
Don't get the poor Mac users' hopes up!
Jesus Christ, buddy, it's been like 3 fucking years. Either switch browsers, or get over it already!
It's a staged release, just in case there's a horrible flaw in it somewhere. (Maybe you've been asleep the last year, but there have been a couple incidents with AV software killing people's computers; you can imagine why they would want to be careful.)
You can either wait a few weeks, or install it manually. The definitions are the same either way.
I was thinking the same thing. Did his N64 self-destruct or something? Did the game cartridge get stolen by squirrels? I need details here!
(Or is he just as sublimely terrible writer who never bothers to proof his own work? The world may never know!)